Re: [fluid-dev] Extracting preset names and numbers

[Ben Gonzales]

Thanks Marcus (and Andreas).

I'll give both of those a try. Is there a way of just getting the preset 
no. and name using sf2utils?

The following works, but it's difficult to separate the "name" from 
other info

sf2parse filename.sf2 | grep Preset

I get:

Preset[000:056] Trumpet 2 bag(s) from #0
Preset[000:057] Trombone 2 bag(s) from #2
Preset[000:064] Soprano Sax 2 bag(s) from #4
Preset[000:065] Alto Sax 2 bag(s) from #6
Preset[000:066] Tenor Sax 6 bag(s) from #8
Preset[000:068] Oboe 2 bag(s) from #14
Preset[000:071] Clarinet 6 bag(s) from #16
Preset[000:070] Bassoon 3 bag(s) from #22
Preset[000:073] Flute 5 bag(s) from #25
Preset[000:074] Recorder 3 bag(s) from #30
Preset[001:056] Trumpet 2 9 bag(s) from #33
Preset[001:057] Trombone 2 4 bag(s) from #42
Preset[001:060] Solo French Horn 2 bag(s) from #46
Preset EOP

Of course, it can be done, but is there an easier way?

Ben

On 27/09/18 21:49, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Marcus Weseloh <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hey Ben,
> >
> > there's the sf2utils package: https://pypi.org/project/sf2utils/
> >
> > I've used this for a while for exactly the same use-case: reading the preset
> > names and displaying them in a list. It works quite well, but is a little
> > slow opening Soundfonds with a large number of presets / instruments /
> > zones.
> >
> > I've since created my own module that is much faster, as it only reads the
> > preset names and doesn't load all the information about generators,
> > modulators, instruments etc. You can find the code here:
> > https://github.com/midigurdy/mg-core/blob/7af42f4bedc7fd071fab139b21e7444d24e5b361/mgurdy/src/mg/sf2.py#L160
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >      Marcus
> And I wrote something in C [1] - if I only had known about sf2utils...
>
> Andreas
>
> [1] https://github.com/schnitzeltony/soundfont-cmdline-tools
> > Am Mi., 26. Sep. 2018 um 23:53 Uhr schrieb Ben Gonzales <address@hidden>:
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > > I'm playing around with a headless RPi with fluidsynth and I'm thinking
> > > of incorporating a small display with button controls to select things
> > > like the preset, the octave, transpose, etc.   I'd like to be able to
> > > extract the preset names and numbers from the target sf2 file so I could
> > > use them in the display program, but I'm having difficulty finding a
> > > suitable utility.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions? Python would be nice...
> > >
> > > Ben
> > >
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